STORYTIME KITS
AMERICAN HISTORY KITS
DISPLAYS,
FLANNELBOARD AND
MAGNET STORIES,
PUPPETS, and
SPECIALTY ITEMS…
AVAILABLE THROUGH THE NIOGA LIBRARY SYSTEM
Please see loan policies noted on the front page of each category.
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NIOGA LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Table of Contents
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Displays
Loan Policies and Procedures
African American Culture
Family Reading Time
Fire Safety
Multicultural Display
Native American Culture
Sports
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Storytime kits
Loan Policies and Procedures
Apples and Pumpkins and More – Oh My!
At the Aquarium
At the Zoo
Celebrations Mini-Kit
Christmas
Community Helpers
Dinosaurs
Easter
Fall Is Here
Fall Mini-Kit
Families Are Like That
Farm
Folk Tales For Little Folks
Going Shopping
Going to School
Growing and Growing
Halloween
Hi, Baby
I Know Mother Goose
I’m Hiding, I’m Hiding
It’s Fun To Learn
Kwanzaa Mini-Kit
Let’s Be Friends
Mother, Mother, I Feel Sick
My Kind of House
My Neighborhood
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Nonsense
One Red Square
Patriotic Holidays
Pets
Please Pass the Seasons
Rhyme Time
Say It Again
Spring
Spring Mini-Kit
Summer Fun
Summer Mini-Kit
Teddy Bears
Thanksgiving
There’s Magic In Books
Travel
Valentine’s Day
What’s There To Eat?
Winter
Winter Mini-Kit
You Are Special
Your Five Senses
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American History Kits
Loan Policies and Procedures
American History Timeline – Book Discussion Kits
The American Revolution
First Factories: The Early Labor Movement
World War I
The Dust Bowl
Bound for America - Program Kit
New York State History
Early Settlement
The Erie Canal
The Underground Railroad
World War II
Reading Road Trip USA - Program Kit
The Road to Freedom and Unity with Abraham Lincoln
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Loan Policies and Procedures
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NIOGA LIBRARY SYSTEM
6575 WHEELER ROAD • LOCKPORT, NY 14094 • 716-434-6167 • FAX: 716-434-8231
READY – SET – VIEW:
PREPACKAGED LOANABLE LIBRARY DISPLAYS
Prepackaged loanable library displays were developed by the Youth Services Department
of the Nioga Library System with funding through a Federal Library Services and
Construction Act Grant (LSCA) via the New York State Education Department in 1990
as well as a 1994 LSCA project. Jean Van Tassell, the Project Coordinator, planned and
developed each display package. The concept of loanable library displays originated
with an idea from Elaine Jamele, former Children’s Librarian at the Lee-Whedon
Memorial Library in Medina.
The displays were developed to assist Nioga Library System member libraries in
preparing attractive in-library exhibits on pertinent topics for viewing by library patrons.
The displays were designed to be of particular interest to children and young adults. A
total of six packages have been developed on the following topics:
African-American Culture
Sports
Fire Safety
Family Reading Time
Many Peoples, Many Gifts
(Multicultural)
Native American Culture
Each prepackaged loanable library display contains books, realia, a poster, and an easel.
Each display also includes two copies of each book. One copy may be loaned to patrons.
The other copy is only for in-library display use.
Only member libraries with lockable exhibit cabinets may borrow the displays. Each
display is loaned out upon request for a one or two month period.
If you have any questions concerning this service please contact the General Services
Consultant at the Nioga Library System (716) 434-6167 ext. 31.
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Display
AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE
Two (2) each – One for display, one for circulation
Books:
Follow The Drinking Gourd
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Shaka, King of the Zulus
Martin Luther King, Jr. Free At Last
Daniel’s Dog
14.00
15.00
14.00
13.00
12.00
Objects
(Descriptive cards included. These are numbered to match numbers on objects.):
Dashiki (Shirt)
Fork and Spoon Set
Basket
Kufi (Hat)
Kente Strip
Decorative Gourd
Kalimba (Finger Piano)
Mask
Sculpture
Two (2) Cards
Carved Dancer
Four (4) Pecan Resin Figurines
30.00
15.00
11.75
15.00
20.00
6.00
25.00
15.00
12.00
3.00
15.00
108.00
One Easel
One Framed Poster
Bookmarks (50 per loan)
NOTE:
53.00
83.00
LIBRARIES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR REPLACEMENT OF
LOST OR DAMAGED ITEMS.
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Display
FAMILY READING TIME
Two (2) each – One for display, one for circulation
Books:
The New Read-Aloud Handbook
The Wednesday Surprise
Choosing Books for Children
When Will I Read?
Baby’s Storybook
10.00
14.00
16.00
13.00
12.00
Objects:
Bench
Chair
Table
Tablecloth
Candle
Basket
Two (2) Rabbits
Two (2) Bears
Miniature Books (For Display Only)
One Easel
One Framed Poster
Bookmarks (50 per loan)
NOTE:
14.00
14.00
5.00
2.00
.50
1.00
32.00
18.00
16.00
53.00
83.00
LIBRARIES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR REPLACEMENT OF
LOST OR DAMAGED ITEMS.
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Display
FIRE SAFETY
Two (2) each – One for display, one for circulation
Books:
Fire! Fire!
Matches, Lighters and Firecrackers Are Not Toys
A Day In The Life of a Firefighter
Night Fire
Fire Engines
Fire Fighters
13.00
13.00
11.00
12.00
10.00
13.00
Objects:
Fireman’s Helmet
Old-Fashioned Fire Hose Nozzle
Smoke Detector
Fire Department Play Set
Various Fire Prevention Pamphlets
Old-fashioned Fire Engine
25.00
25.00
13.00
30.00
48.00
One Easel
One Framed Poster
Bookmarks (50 per loan)
NOTE:
53.00
83.00
LIBRARIES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR REPLACEMENT OF
LOST OR DAMAGED ITEMS.
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Display
MULTICULTURAL DISPLAY
Two (2) each – One for display, one for circulation
Books:
Great Migration
Dark Thirty
This Land is My Land
First Strawberries
Grandfather’s Journey
Native Roots
Abuela
How My Family Lives In America
Kids Explore America’s Hispanic Heritage
Extraordinary Asian-Pacific Americans
13.35
13.91
10.37
8.15
13.98
12.75
12.74
12.14
8.73
27.14
Objects:
Lacrosse Stick
5 Karate Belts
Wok
Musical Gourd
Candles
Sheet Music
Scarf
Pinata
Book: A Grand Army of Black Men
2 Books of Postcards
2 Posters
Bookmarks
Portfolio
NOTE:
11.99
6.00 each
14.97
3.50
5.75
7.00
6.95
7.99
17.99
LIBRARIES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR REPLACEMENT OF
LOST OR DAMAGED ITEMS.
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Display
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE
Two (2) each – One for display, one for circulation
Books:
The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush
Return of the Sun
The Iroquois
Buffalo Woman
Hiawatha
The People Shall Continue
14.00
19.00
18.00
14.00
14.00
13.00
Objects: (Descriptive cards included. These are numbered to match numbers on objects):
Wooden Fur Sleigh
Three (3) Cards
Owl
Drum
Tobacco Pouch
Beaver
Canoe
Dancer
Storyteller
Miniature Lacrosse Stick
Barrette
Dream Catcher
Purse
Blanket
Moccasins
10.00
10.00
10.00
5.00
8.00
30.00
4.00
45.00
35.00
12.00
20.00
10.00
25.00
15.00
11.00
One Easel
One Framed Poster
Bookmarks (50 per loan)
NOTE:
83.00
53.00
LIBRARIES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR REPLACEMENT OF
LOST OR DAMAGED ITEMS.
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Display
SPORTS
Books:
Two (2) each – One for display, one for circulation
Eyewitness Books: Sports
Batter Up
Jill Trenary: The Day I Skated For the Gold
I Am a Jesse White Tumbler
Go, Team, Go
The Ultimate Skateboard Book
14.00
13.00
15.00
14.00
14.00
20.00
Objects:
Tennis Racquet
Football
Tee
Baseball (Jar ring for display)
Soccer Ball (Jar ring for display)
Tennis Racquet
Swim Goggles
Hockey Puck
Small Hockey Stick
Boomerang
Baseball Hat
Whistle and Lanyard
Baseball Cards
Baseball Card Price Guide (For Display Only)
Baseball Bat
Pennant
Joe Montana Figure
Charles Barkley Figure
Reggie Jackson/ Don Drysdae Figure
Bruce Smith Figure
Jim Kelly Hat
Soft Art Sabres Pennant
17.00
9.00
2.00
4.00
20.00
17.00
5.00
3.00
4.00
5.00
15.00
1.00
1.00
6.00
13.00
2.00
8.00
8.00
16.00
8.00
16.00
6.00
One Easel
One Framed Poster
Bookmarks (50 per loan)
NOTE:
53.00
83.00
LIBRARIES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR REPLACEMENT OF
LOST OR DAMAGED ITEMS.
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Storytime Kits
Loan Policies and Procedures
Who May Borrow
You must have an ADULT NIOGA LIBRARY CARD OR A MEMBER LIBRARY
CARD and be a leader of a group or organization (for example, nursery school teachers,
day car center workers, librarians, story-tellers, church groups, etc.)
Bookings
Orders are filled on a “first come/first serve” basis. Requests cannot be submitted more
than a year in advance.
Loan Period
Story time kits will be loaned out for a maximum of one week. A patron may borrow one
kit at a time. Book discussion kits will be loaned out for a maximum of two months.
Program kits will be loaned out for a maximum of two weeks.
Use and Care
There are pieces in the kits, which must be handled with care if they are to be used by
many patrons. For this reason, you are asked to NOT ALLOW CHILDREN TO PLAY
WITH CONTENTS OF THE KITS, unless such activity is called for in the story kit.
Damages
All materials are inspected after each use and are in good condition when loaned. If
damage occurs, do not attempt to mend the item. If a book is damaged or lost, the
borrower will be charged the list price plus one dollar. There will be a charge of five
dollars ($5.00) for lost of or damage to any item, Flannelboard sets, puppets, story starter
items, or specialty items
Overdue Charges
Borrowers will be charged three dollars ($3.00) per day for each kit not returned on time.
Other patrons may have reserved the kit and need to have the kit delivered on schedule.
Thank you!
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Storytime Kits
APPLES AND PUMPKINS AND MORE—OH MY!
Theme: Gardening and the fall harvest with an emphasis on applies and pumpkins.
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Small Garden tools, packets of seeds
Artificial apples
Books
The Apple Pie Tree by Zoe Hall
Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert
I Am An Apple by Jean Marzollo
Pumpkin Fair by Eve Bunting
Vegetable Garden by Douglas Florian
Flannelboard Activities
“The Giant Pumpkin”
“Five Juicy Apples”
Puppet Activities
Apple with worm
“A Little Pumpkin Seed” - Stick Puppets
Specialty Items
Pocket Poem — “Things that Grow”
Circle stories
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays and Action Rhymes
“Planting”
“Flower Garden”
“The Apple Tree”
“Five Little Potatoes”
“I Dig The Ground”
“Five Fat Peas”
“A Little Seed”
“Harvest Time”
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“My Garden”
“Five Little Apples”
“Dig A Little Hole”
“Plant A Little Tree”
“Sweet Corn”
“Drive The Tractor”
“Ten Red Apples”
“Stew”
“A Red Tomato”
“Let’s Pick Apples”
Songs
“I’m A Little Sunflower”
“Planting Time”
“Flowers In A Row”
“Mr. Pumpkin”
“Oats And Beans And Barley”
“Cherries Ripe”
“We’re Going To Plant A Pumpkin Vine”
“I Like Fall”
“Vegetables”
“In My Garden”
“Apple, Apple, On The Tree”
“Apple song”
“Color Vegetable Garden”
“If You Were A Farmer”
“A Pumpkin Ran Away”
List of additional books
Patterns for name tags
Suggestions for activities
Additional presentations
Bulletin board decorations
Sign language songs
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Storytime Kits
AT THE AQUARIUM
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Plastic sea creatures
Books
Baby Beluga by Raffi
Curious George Goes to the Aquarium by M. Rey
In the Ocean by Dawn Apperley
Swimmy by Leo Lionni
Flannelboard Activities
Ocean Set
“Ten Little Fishes”
Puppet Activities
“In the Blue Sea” – Stick Puppets
Set of sea creatures
Specialty Items
Shark friends
“Octopus, Octopus” – stuffed animal
“Oh, Do You Have?” – creature cards
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays and Action Rhymes
“Turtles”
“Whales”
“Like a Fish”
“Little Lobster”
“Inside an Oyster’s Shell”
“I am a Sea Star”
“Five Little Fishes”
“Fishes”
“I’m a Great Big Whale”
“Five Little Crabs”
“Once I Saw an Octopus”
“Five Big Whales”
“Eight Arms”
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Songs
“Baby Beluga”
“Octopus’s Garden”
“1,2,3,4,5”
“I’m a Little Fishy”
“All the Fish”
List of additional books
Patterns for name tags
Suggestions for activities
Additional presentations
Sponges
Note: The Niagara Falls Aquarium will (for a price) bring creatures from the Aquarium
for the children to see and handle.
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Storytime Kits
AT THE ZOO
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Small animal beanbags
Books
Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell
Going to the Zoo by Tom Paxton
Goodnight, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
If Anything Ever Goes Wrong at the Zoo by Mary Jean Hendrick
Flannelboard Activities
Zoo Animals
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?
“Nine Little Zebras”
“Counting at the Zoo”
Puppet Activities
Zoo babies mitt puppets
“Monkey See, Monkey Do” – Hand Puppet
Gorilla Doll
Specialty Items
Peek-a-boo Pictures
“Mr. Monkey”
“I Like to Go to the Zoo?”
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays and Action Rhymes
“The Spotted Giraffe”
“Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed”
“Let’s Go to the Zoo”
“I’m a Little Zebra”
“Three Little Monkeys”
“What a Nose!”
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“Monkey See, Monkey Do”
“An Elephant Goes”
“I Know a Giraffe”
“I’m a Lion”
“Action Rhyme”
“Animals”
“The Elephant”
“Tongue Twister”
“Two Little Zebras”
“The Menagerie”
“Baby Kangaroo”
Songs
“Alison’s Camel”
“Going to the Zoo”
“There is a Zoo Right Here”
“One Elephant”
“The Zoo”
List of additional books
Patterns for name tags
Suggestions for activities
Additional presentations
“Abracadabra” prop poem
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Storytime Kits
Celebrations Mini-Kit
Books
Parade by Donald Crews
Dinosaur Stomp!: A Monster Pop-Up By Paul Stickland
Mama Don’t Allow: Starring Miles and the Swamp Band by Thacher Hurd
Story Starter: Party Blowers
Name Tags and Clip Art
Puppet Activity
Clown Pop-up Puppet
Songs
“Oh, When the Band Comes Marching In”
“Happy New Year to You”
Flannelboard Activity
“Party Hats”
Finger Plays
“The Parade”
“Here Comes the Band”
“Let’s Have a Party”
Poem
“Celebrate”
Supported by Federal Library Services and Technology Act Title I funds, granted by the
New York State Library…via the Nioga Library System
1998
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Storytime Kits
Christmas
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Wooden Santa and Mrs. Claus
Christmas stocking
Christmas tree
Display Cutouts
Santa Claus and Candy Canes
Books
Max’s Christmas by Rosemary Wells
My First Chanukah by Tomie de Paola
The Night Before Christmas by Clement Moore
Who is Coming to Our House? by Joseph Slate
Flannelboard Activities
“Santa Saves the Elves”
“Christmas Time”
“Dreidel”
Puppet Activities
“Eight Little Candles” – pop-up candles
“Santa’s Reindeer” – finger puppet
Specialty Items
“Five Christmas Cookies”
“The Missing Reindeer”
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Finger Plays and Action Rhymes
“Christmas Tree”
“Santa Claus”
“Christmas”
“This Little Elf”
“Here is the Chimney”
“Santa’s Reindeer”
“Hanukkah Time”
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“Come & Trim Our Christmas Tree”
“My Christmas Tree”
“The Toy Shop”
“Christmas Presents”
Songs
Note: An audiocassette of the following songs is also included in kit.
“Christmas Time is Near”
“Jingle Bells”
“Merry Christmas”
“Little Jack Horner”
“Christmas Time”
“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
“Little Candle Fires”
“My Dreyd’l”
“Santa Claus is Coming to Town”
“Jolly Old St. Nicholas”
List of additional books
Patterns for name tags
Suggestions for activities
Additional presentations
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Storytime Kits
Community Helpers
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Workers and vehicles
Books
An Auto Mechanic by Douglas Florian
Busy People by Nick Butterworth
Going to the Dentist by Fred Rogers
I Took My Frog to the Library by Eric Kimmel
Mr. Griggs’ Work by Cynthia Rylant
Poinsettia & the Firefighters by Felicia Bond
Flannelboard Activities
“Helpful Friends”
“When I Grow Up”
Puppet Activities
Doctor, Firefighter, Construction Worker – hand puppets
“Police officer” from MITT MAGIC by Lynda Roberts – mitt puppets
“Five Little Firefighters” from MITT MAGIC by Lynda Roberts – mitt puppets
Specialty Items
“Peter’s Friends”
Career Characters (Dress-up)
“The Corner Grocery Store” – THE RAFFI SINGABLE SONGBOOK by Raffi
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays and Action Rhymes
“The Dentist”
“Ten Clerks”
“The Mail”
“Baker’s Truck”
“Five Little Firemen”
“Four Busy Firefighters”
“Pound Goes the Hammer”
“The Steam Shovel”
“Mail”
“Five Sugar Buns”
“Ten Brave Firemen”
“Five Strong Policemen”
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“Traffic Policemen”
“Five Doctors”
Songs
“Mother, Mother”
“Community Helper Song”
“Here We Go to See the Doctor”
“She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain”
“Firefighters”
“I am a Policeman”
“Johnny Works with One Hammer”
“Oh, Have You Seen the Muffin Man?”
“The Farmer in the Dell”
“The Corner Grocery Store”
“The People in Your Neighborhood”
Poems
“The Library”
“Our Washing Machine”
“Barbershop”
“The Riveter”
List of additional books
Patterns for name tags
Suggestions for activities
Additional presentations
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Storytime Kits
Dinosaurs
Kit Contents
Story Starters
Plastic dinosaurs and hatching baby dinosaur
Books
Count-A-Saurus by Nancy Blumenthal
Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs by Bryon Barton
If the Dinosaurs Came Back by Bernard Most
Patrick’s Dinosaur by Carol Carrick
Flannelboard Activities
“Over By the Swamp”
Puppet Activities
“Five Enormous Dinosaurs” – stick puppets
Specialty Items
“I Found a Tiny Egg” – magnet poems
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“The Dinosaurs”
“Ten Huge Dinosaurs”
“Five Fat Funny Dinosaurs”
“Crazy Dinosaurs”
Songs
“All Around the Swamp”
“Dinosaurs”
“Long Gone”
“The Only Place”
“Unfortunately”
“Dinosaur”
Poems
“The Trouble with a Dinosaur”
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List of additional books
Patterns for name tags
Suggestions for activities
Additional presentations
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Storytime Kits
Easter
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Nesting eggs with bunny design
Display Cutouts
Egg, bunny and chick
Books
Easter Parade by Mary Chalmers
Happy Easter by Kurt Weise
Humbug Rabbit by Lorna Balian
Spots’ First Easter by Eric Hill
Flannelboard Activities
“Easter Rabbit”
“The Easter Bunnies’ Bonnets”
“Five Little Rabbits”
Puppet Activities
THE EASTER BUNNY THAT OVERSLEPT by Priscilla & Otto Friedrich
“Five Little Easter Eggs” – glove puppets
Specialty Items
“Easter Hunt”
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“Here is a Bunny”
“Once there was a Bunny”
“The Rabbits”
“Easter”
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Songs
Note: An audiocassette of the following songs is also included in kit.
“There’s a Little Bunny”
“Did You Ever See a Bunny”
“The Bunny Patch”
“There’s Nothing as Soft as a Bunny”
“Easter Bunny”
Poems
“An Easter Puzzle”
“Easter Eggs”
“The Easter Egg Hunt”
“Easter’s Coming”
“Easter Daisies”
“Listen, Rabbit”
List of additional books
Patterns for name tags
Suggestions for activities
Additional presentations
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Storytime Kits
Fall Is Here
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Colored leaves, plastic apple & grapes
Books
The Bears’ Autumn by Keizaburo Tejima
The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night by Peter Spier
Frederick by Leo Lionni
Marmalade’s Yellow Leaf by Cindy Wheeler
Flannelboard Activities
“Three Little Oak Leaves”
THE LITTLE OLD LADY WHO WAS NOT AFRAID OF ANYTHING by
Linda Williams
Puppet Activities
“This is the Tall Tree” – felt apron
“Autumn Leaves” – mitt puppet
Specialty Items
“Little Arabella Miller”
“The Ghost and the Pumpkin” – paper bag puppets
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“The Apple Tree”
“Turkey Walk”
“Once There was a Pumpkin”
“Thanksgiving:
“Let’s Go for a Walk”
“Raking Leaves”
“Scary Eyes”
“We are Jack-o-Lanterns”
“Here is a Turkey
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Songs
“The Leaves of the Trees”
“Smells like Thanksgiving”
“Three Little Witches”
“Jack-O-Lantern”
Poems
“October Magic”
“Whisky Frisky”
“Autumn Fires”
“Falling Leaves”
“It’s Happy Thanksgiving”
“I Ate too Much”
List of additional books
Patterns for name tags
Suggestions for activities
Additional presentations
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Storytime Kits
Fall Mini-Kit
Books
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert
Every Autumn Comes the Bear By Jim Arnosky
Name Tags
Puppet Activity
“This is the Tall Tree”
Songs
“The Leaves of the Trees”
“Arabella Miller”
“Leaves”
Flannelboard Activity
“Autumn Leaves”
Fingerplays
“The Apple Tree”
“Raking Leaves”
“The Scarecrow”
Crafts
Leaf rubbings
Caterpillars
Pumpkins
Supported by Federal Library Services and Technology Act Title I funds, granted by the
New York State Library…via the Nioga Library System
1998
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Storytime Kits
Families Are Like That
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Fisher-Price family
Books
Families Are Different by Nina Pellegrini
Grandma’s Wheelchair by Lorraine Henriod
Just Me and My Dad by Mercer Mayer
Maybe a Band-Aid Would Help by Anna G. Hines
Whose Mouse Are You? by Robert Kraus
Flannelboard Activities
Just Like Daddy by Frank Asch
Puppet Activity
Squirrels to use with The Surprise by George Shannon
Specialty Items
“The Cupboard” – Poem with visuals
“Five Yellow Ducklings” – glove puppets
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“Here are Mother’s Knives and Forks”
“Here are Grandma’s Spectacles”
Songs
“Mother’s Washing”
“Uncle Walter Came to Visit”
List of additional books
Four (4) Activity Sheets
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“My Family”
Storytime Kits
Farm
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Tractor, farm wagon and cow
Books
Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown
The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash by Trinka H. Noble
Good Morning, Chick by Mirra Ginsburg
Marmalade’s Nap by Cindy Wheeler
Old MacDonald Had A Farm by Glenn Rounds
Flannelboard Activities
“Five Busy Farmers”
Puppet Activities
“Bingo” – mitt puppets
Buzz, Buzz, Buzz by Byron Barton – clothesline story and finger puppet
Specialty Item
“Open Up the Barn Door”
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“This is the Farm”
“Farmer Jones’ Farm”
“Little Boy Blue”
“Ten Little Ponies”
“Four Billy Goats”
“Ten Fluffy Chickens”
“Drive the Tractor”
“Two Mother Pigs”
Songs
“Little Boy Blue”
“Over in the Barnyard”
“All Around the Barnyard”
“I Bought Me a Rooster”
“Five Little Pigs”
“Five Little Mice”
“Farmer and His Seeds”
“Six Little Ducks”
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Poems
“Cows”
“Horses”
“Familiar Friends”
“Red Hen”
List of additional books
Patterns For Name Tags
Suggestions For Activities
Additional Presentations
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Storytime Kits
Folk Tales For Little Folks
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starter
Gingerbread boy cookie cutter and doll
Books
The Lion and the Rat by Brian Wildsmith
Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersen
The Rich Man and the Shoemaker by Brian Wildsmith
The Three Bears by Paul Galdone
Flannelboard Activity
“Henny Penny”
Puppet Activities
“Hare and Tortoise”
Specialty Items
“Gingerbread Man” – clothesline story
“Three Little Pigs” – flip chart
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Finger Plays
“The Bear Went Over The Mountain”
Songs
“The Bear Went Over The Mountain”
“Gingerbread Boy”
Poems
“The Hare and the Tortoise”
List of additional books
Four (4) Activity Sheets
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Storytime Kits
Going Shopping
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Artificial groceries
Books
Don’t Forget the Bacon by Pat Hutchins
Don’t Worry, I’ll Find You by Anna Hines
The Shopping Basket by John Burningham
The Supermarket Mice by Margaret Gordon
Flannelboard Activity
“Five Red Apples”
Puppet Activity
“Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog”
Specialty Items
“A Fairy Went A-Marketing” – string story
“To Market, To Market” – stick puppets
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activity
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“The Toy Shop”
“Tall Shop”
“The Shopping Trip”
“Ten Little Men”
“This Little Piggie”
Songs
“The Corner Grocery Store”
List of additional books
Four (4) Activity Sheets
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Storytime Kits
Going To School
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Wooden school bus and children
Books
Will I Have a Friend? by Miriam Cohen
Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready For Kindergarten by Joseph Slate
Little Bunny’s Preschool Countdown by Maribeth Boelts
Three Star Billy by Pat Hutchins
Flannelboard Activities
School Fun
“Wheels on the Bus”
Puppet Activities
“Simon Says” – hand puppet
Specialty Item
“A Day at Preschool” – flip chart
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays and Action Rhymes
“I Build Big Towers”
“Three is More Fun”
“Where Do We Go?”
“Our School is a Friendly Place”
“At School”
“Who Feels Happy Today?”
“Quiet Be”
“Crossing Streets”
“Jack in the Box”
“The Slide”
“Being Patient”
“It’s Fun to Work Together”
“Five Preschool Children”
“School Tools”
“Packing Lunch for School”
“The Wiggles”
“Find a Friend at School”
“The Finger Band”
“School Days”
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Songs
“What Shall We Do When We All Go Out?”
“Sliding”
“We Know How to Get Along”
“All In a Day at School”
“We Share”
“Special Things”
“We Love it So”
“It’s Time to Put Our Things Away”
“Join Us In the Circle”
“What We Did Today”
“Good Morning to You”
“What a Wonderful Day”
“We’ll be Ready for Our Parents
List of additional books
Patterns For Name Tags
Suggestions For Activities
Additional Presentations
Bulletin board decorations
Sign language songs
Graduation Day
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“The Swinging Song”
“Together”
“On Our Way to School”
“I Like to Go to School”
“If You’re Ready”
“Wash for Lunch”
“It is Naptime”
“We Have Fun”
“Time to Say Goodbye”
Storytime Kits
Growing and Growing
KIT CONTENTS
Theme: Birthdays bring joys but also difficulties and challenges
Story Starters
Birthday candles, holders and noisemakers
Books
Devin’s New Bed by Sally Freedman
Geraldine’s Blanket by Holly Keller
Happy Birthday, Sam by Pat Hutchins
Shawn Goes to School by Petronella Breinburg
Flannelboard Activities
Happy Birthday Cake
“Cindy Goes to School”
Puppet Activity
“This is The Way I Drink My Milk” – cup puppet
Specialty Items
“I Can Take a Walk” – finger puppet
“Five Candles” – fingerplay with glove puppets
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“All By Myself”
“My Bicycle”
“Washing Myself”
“Up a Step”
“Measuring”
“I Can”
List of additional books
Four (4) Activity Sheets
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Storytime Kits
Halloween
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Wooden skeleton
Stuffed jack-o-lantern
Display Cutouts
Cat, owl, jack-o-lantern
Books
In The Haunted House by Eve Bunting
Popcorn by Frank Asch
Scary, Scary Halloween by Eve Bunting
The Witch’s Hat by Tony Johnston
Flannelboard Activities
“Disappearing Witches”
“Pumpkin” by Jack Prelutsky
Puppet Activities
“Halloween” – glove puppets
“Five Little Pumpkins” – glove puppets
“On Halloween Night” – finger puppets
“Five Little Ghosts” – glove puppets
Specialty Items
HUMBUG WITCH by Lorna Balian
“10 Little Pumpkins” – flip over cards
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“Here is a Witch’s Tall, Black Hat”
“Three Little Witches”
“Two Little Ghosts”
“Tommy’s Pumpkin”
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“Witch”
“Pumpkin Time”
“Jack-O-Lantern”
“Boo”
Songs
Note: An audiocassette of the following songs is also included in kit.
“We are Jack-O-Lanterns”
“Stirring Our Brew”
“Jack-O-Lantern”
“Do You Have the Spooky Ghost?”
“Halloween Witches”
Poems
“I am a Pumpkin”
“Creepy”
“On Halloween”
“My Brother”
“A Riddle”
“October Magic”
“Happy Halloween”
List of additional books
Patterns for Name Tags
Suggestions For Activities
Additional Presentations
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Storytime Kits
Hi, Baby!
KIT CONTENTS
Theme: Sometimes children find it difficult to welcome a new baby into the home.
Story Starters
Baby booties
Books
My Brother, Will by Joan Robbins
She Come Bringing Me That Little Baby Girl by Eloise Greenfield
Too Big by Holly Keller
You’ll Soon Grow Into Them, Titch by Pat Hutchins
Flannelboard Activities
“Big Bear, Little Bear”
“Little Baby”
Puppet Activity
Smile For Auntie by Diane Paterson
Specialty Items
“Hush, Little Baby” – strip pictures
“Faces” – creative dramatics
“Dance to Your Daddy” – finger puppets
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“Sh! Be Quiet”
“Here is Baby’s Tousled Head”
Songs
“Rock-a-bye Baby”
“This is Baby”
List of additional books
Four (4) Activity Sheets
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Storytime Kits
I Know Mother Goose
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starter
Three sets of mittens for “Three Little Kittens”
Books
Brian Wildsmith’s Mother Goose by Brian Wildsmith
Old Mother Hubbard by Alice & Martin Provensen
Sing A Song of Sixpence by Tracey C. Pearson
Three Little Kittens by Paul Galdone
Flannelboard Activity
“Hey, Diddle, Diddle”
Puppet Activity
Little Miss Muffet, spider, tuffet, dish and spoon
Specialty Items
“Hickory Dickory Dock” – mouse and clock
“Humpty Dumpty” – finger puppets
“Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home” – clothespin puppets
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“Eency, Weency Spider”
“Jack and Jill”
Songs
“Eency, Weency Spider” – finger play
“Little Tom Tinker” - action
List of additional books
Four (4) Activity Sheets
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Storytime Kits
I’m Hiding, I’m Hiding
KIT CONTENTS
Theme: It can be fun to look for things that are hiding.
Story Starter
Chicken hidden in egg
Books
Are You there, Bear? by Ron Maris
One Hunter by Pat Hutchins
Spot’s Birthday Party by Eric Hill
Where Can It Be? by Ann Jonas
Flannelboard Activity
Who Took the Farmer’s Hat? by Joan L. Nodset
Puppet Activity
Elephant Buttons by Noriko Ueno
Specialty Items
SNAIL, WHERE ARE YOU? by Tomi Ungerer – find the snail design
“Peek-a-Book” pictures
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activity
Puppet activity
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“Jack in the Box”
“Kitten is Hiding”
“Here is a Beehive”
“Ten Little Men”
“Hide and Seek”
“Where is Thumbkin?”
Songs
“Peek a Boo”
“Here is a Beehive”
“Where is Thumbkin?”
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Poems
“Hiding”
“I’m Hiding”
“The Lost Cat”
“What Was Behind The Door?” – participation story
List of additional books
Four (4) Activity Sheets
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Storytime Kits
It’s Fun To Learn
KIT CONTENTS
Theme: There are enjoyable ways to use literature to review or teach concepts such as
colors, numbers, letters, shapes, etc.
Story Starters
Plastic color paddles
Books
Hippos Go Berserk by Sandra Boynton
Is It Rough? Is It Smooth? Is It Shiny? by Tana Hoban
Mary Wore Her Red Dress and Henry Wore His Green Sneakers by Merle
Peek
The Most Amazing Hide and Seek Alphabet Book by Robert Crowther
Flannelboard Activity
One Bright Monday Morning by Arlene and Joseph Baum
Puppet Activity
“Ten in the Bed” – bear stick puppets
Specialty Items
“Fish” – glove fingerplay
Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni – cut out story
“The Funny-Shape Family” – cut and tell story
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“Bees”
Songs
“Ten Little Indians” – action song
“Alphabet song”
List of additional books
Four (4) Activity Sheets
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Storytime Kits
Kwanzaa Mini-Kit
Books
Kwanzaa Celebration by Nancy Williams
K Is for Kwanzaa: A Kwanzaa Alphabet Book by Juwanda Ford
Seven Candles for Kwanzaa by Andrea Pinkey
Name Tags
Puppet Activity
“How Spider Got His Thin Middle” Spider hand puppet and rope
Songs
“Kwanzaa’s Here”
“Habari Gani?”
Flannelboard Activity
“Kwanzaa Candles”
Specialty Item
Kwanzaa Kit with mat, candleholder, candles, corn, fruit, banner, hat
Fingerplays
“Kwanzaa Candles”
“Kwanzaa Fun”
Crafts:
Supported by Federal Library Services and Technology Act Title I funds, granted by the
New York State Library…via the Nioga Library System
1998
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Storytime Kits
Let’s Be Friends
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Hugging monkeys, small hugging rabbits, wind-up mouse
Books
Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse by Leo Lionni
A Friend For Oscar Mouse by J. & N. Majewska
A Home by Nola Langner Malone
Will I Have A Friend? by Miriam Cohen
Flannelboard Activities
“Five Friends Went Out to Play”
“The Elephant With the Big Roar”
“Jack and Jill”
Puppet Activity
“Mary Had a Little Lamb”
Specialty Item
Sophie and Jack by Judy Taylor
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“Up the Hill and Down the Hill”
“Two Little Friends”
“I Have a Little Heart”
“My Friends”
“Fun at the Playground”
Songs
“What Shall We Do When We All Go Out?”
“The More We are Together”
“This is What I Can Do”
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“Buddies and Pals”
“Friends”
“The Sharing Song”
Poems
“What Johnny Told Me”
“My Teddy Bear”
“Play After Rain”
“Catherine”
“People”
“I Have a Friend”
List of additional books
Patterns for Name Tags
Suggestions for Activities
Additional Presentations
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Storytime Kits
Mother, Mother, I feel Sick
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starter
Stethoscope
Books
I Wish I Was Sick, Too! by Franz Brandenberg
Teddy Bears Cure A Cold by Susanna Gretz
Truffles Is Sick by Catherine Anholt
What’s Claude Doing? by Dick Gackenback
Flannelboard Activity
“Sore Toe”
Puppet Activity
Hiccup by Mercer Mayer – hippo puppets
Specialty Items
Mother, Mother, I feel Sick, Send for the Doctor Quick, Quick, Quick by
Remy Charlip and Burton Supree – circle story
Too Many Cookies – magnet poem
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“Monkeys On a Bed”
“Put Up Your Umbrella”
Poems
“After the Party”
“Examination”
“Hiccup Cure” - participation
“Miss Polly”
“Bella Had a New Umbrella”
List of additional books
Four (4) Activity Sheets
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Storytime Kits
My Kind Of House
KIT CONTENTS
Theme: There are many different types of homes for people and animals
Story Starter
Birds in birdhouse
Books
Is Anyone Home? by Ron Maris
Home Sweet Home by Maureen Roffey
The Biggest House In the World by Leo Lionni
A House Is A House For Me by Mary Ann Hoberman
Flannelboard Activity
“The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe”
Puppet Activity
Rabbit to use with fingerplay
Specialty Items
“Choosing A Pet” – tell and draw story with dry-erase board
“Tree House” – illustrated poem
“Caught in the Storm” – paper-cutting story
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“Houses”
“The Very Nicest Place”
“The House”
“Visiting”
“Two Little Houses”
“There was a Little Turtle
“The Nicest Place in the World” – participation story
Songs
“There was a Little Turtle”
List of additional books
Four (4) Activity Sheets
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Storytime Kits
My Neighborhood
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starter
Toy House and Car
Books
Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell (big book)
The Little Country Town by Jandelyn Southwell
Sidewalk Trip by Will Hubbell
Busy, Busy City Street by Nancy Van Laan
Flannelboard Activities
Our Town
Carpet Shape Pictures
Audio Cassette Tape
In My Hometown by Tom Chapin
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions For Using Kit
Flannelboard Activities
Finger Plays and Action Rhymes
“The Bakery”
“A House for Me”
“Five Little Farmers”
“Building a House”
“I’m a Garbage Collector”
“The Mail Carrier”
“My Little House”
“Homes”
“I am a Librarian”
“To Our School”
“Firefighters”
“In the Barnyard”
Music
“The People in Your Neighborhood”
“Take Me Out to the Barnyard”
“Off to School We Go”
Games, Activities & Crafts
Finger Puppet Fun
City Sounds
List of Additional Books
“Farm Animals”
Road and Car Match
Collage of Homes
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Storytime Kits
Nonsense
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Funny glasses with nose
Books
Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing by Judi Barrett
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Numeroff
The Stupids Step Out by Harry Allard
There’s An Alligator Under My Bed by Mercer Mayer
Flannelboard Activities
The Fat Cat by Jack Kent
“If I Had a Cow”
Puppet Activity
“The Bear Went Over the Mountain”
Specialty Items
The Snopp On the Sidewalk by Jack Prelutsky
“Sleeping Sardines”
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“The Bear Went Over the Mountain”
“The Crocodile”
“The Teapot”
“Poor Old Jonathan Bing”
“Five Little Pigs”
“Five Little Monkeys”
Songs
“The Ants Go Marching”
“Do Your Ears Hang Low?”
“I Point to Myself”
“I Know an Old Lady”
“Little Rabbit Foo Foo”
“I’m a Nut”
“Hey Diddle Diddle”
“Shake My Sillies Out”
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Poems
“The Carpenter Rages”
“The Folks Who Live in Backward Town”
“Eletelephony”
“A Wonderful Thing Happened to My Sister Lettie”
“Simple Simon”
“There Was a Crooked Man”
“I Looked in the Mirror”
List of additional books
Patterns for Name Tags
Suggestions For Activities
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Storytime Kits
One Red Square (Concepts)
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starter
Form Fitter (Shape sorter)
Books
I Spy Shapes by Debbie MacKinnon
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.
Look Whooo’s Counting by Suse MacDonald
Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown (big book)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Flannelboard Activities
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Five Little Bees
Carpet Shape Pictures
Specialty Items
Color Match: A Complete-the-Picture Book
Cassette Tapes
Can Cockatoos Count by Twos? (Hap Palmer)
Can a Jumbo Jet Sing the Alphabet? (Hap Palmer)
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kit
Finger Plays and Action Rhymes
“Color”
“The Beehive”
“There’s a Bug on Me”
“What is a Circle”
“Five Cookies”
“How Can You Tell?”
“Right Hand, Left Hand”
“Five Little Monkeys”
“Red”
“A Rectangle”
“Three Little Nickels”
“Sally the Square”
Music
“The Ants Go Marching”
“The Color of Our Clothes”
“If You are Wearing Red”
“Circle Time”
“What Shape is This?”
“The Guessing Game”
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“Colors that We Know”
“Sing a Song of Shapes”
Additional Presentations
Smells
Games, Activities & Crafts
Paper Cup Circle Art
Crayon Sorting Game
Crayon Dot-to-Dot
Safety March
List of Additional Books
Paid for by NYS Education Department 2000 Parent/Child Services Grant “Special
People, Special Needs” via the Richmond Memorial Library for the Nioga Library
System
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Storytime Kits
Patriotic Holidays
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Small flags, wooden figure, plastic coins
Display Posters
America the Beautiful
Books
Arthur Meets the President by Marc Brown
Henry’s Fourth of July by Holly Keller
The Inside-Outside Book of Washington D.C. by Roxie Munro
The Star-Spangled Banner illustrated by Peter Spier
The Story Of the Statue of Liberty by Betsy & Giulio Maestro
Flannelboard Activities
“Abraham Lincoln”
“Our Flag”
Puppet Activity
“George & the Cherry Tree” – glove puppets
Specialty Items
“Friendly Flag” – magnet activity
“Our Country” – magnet activity
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“Ten Little Candles”
“My Hat”
“Military Band”
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Songs
Note: An audiocassette is also included in kit.
“Yankee Doodle”
“Number March, One to Five”
“Abraham Lincoln”
“This Land is Your Land”
Poems
“To July”
“4th of July”
“Here Comes the Band”
“Fourth of July Night”
“Happy Birthday to Us”
“George Washington”
List of additional books
Patterns for Name tags
Suggestions For Activities
Additional Presentations
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“Marching Song”
“George Washington”
Storytime Kits
Pets
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Flocked dog and puppy
Books
Annie and the Wild Animals by Jan Brett
Aunt Nina and Her Nephews and Nieces by Franz Brandenberg
Crictor by Tomi Ungerer
Fang by Barbara Shook Hazen
Pet Show! by Ezra Jack Keats
Flannelboard Activities
At Mary Bloom’s by Aliki
“Bingo”
Puppet Activities
“My Very Own Pet” – stick puppet masks
“Baby Chick”- finger puppet
Specialty Items
“Goldfish Pest”
“Mother Doesn’t Want a Dog”
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“Friskey’s Doghouse”
“Kitten is Hiding”
“Five Little Puppies”
“Five Little Kittens”
“I Had a Little Poodle”
“Sleepy Kitten”
“A Big Grey Pussycat”
Songs
“There Was A Little Turtle”
“I Love Little Pussy”
“Oh, Where; Oh, Where has My Little Dog Gone” “Mary had a Little Lamb”
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Poems
“A Kitten”
“New Puppy”
“After School”
“A Pony”
“Advice to Children”
List of additional books
Patterns for Name tags
Suggestions For Activities
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Storytime Kits
Please Pass the Seasons (Seasons/Food)
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Rain Maker
Artificial Apple, Peach & Pear
Books
Cold Little Duck, Duck, Duck by Lisa Westberg Peters
In the Tall, Tall Grass by Denise Fleming (big book)
Pumpkin Jack by Will Hubbell
When Winter Comes by Nancy Van Laan
Flannelboard Activities
Fruits & Vegetables
“Let’s Build a Scarecrow”
Audio Cassette Tape
Celebrate Seasons (Songs & Activity Book)
Specialty Items
Seed Bags
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kit
Flannelboard Activities
Finger Plays and Action Rhymes
“Five Fat Peas”
“Sweet Corn”
“Carrot and Peas”
“I Dig, Dig, Dig”
“Spring”
“Wind Tricks”
“Chubby Little Snowman”
“Summer Day”
“Leaves are Drifting”
“Ten Red Apples”
“I’m a Juicy Orange”
“Four Seasons”
“A Little Boy’s Walk”
“The Squirrel Gathers Nuts”
“Snowflakes”
“Making Fruit Treats”
“The Big Round Sun”
“Five Stuffed Scarecrows”
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Music
“Down by the Garden”
“The Wind is Blowing”
“Golden Sunlight”
“Pick Up a Watermelon”
“Standing in the Corn Field”
“Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Head”
“What’s the Weather?”
“Wind, Wind”
“I’ll Plant a Little Seed”
Games, Activities & Crafts
The Popcorn Game
Blueberry Muffin Art
Leaf Puppet
Weather Streamers
List of Additional Books
Paid for by NYS Education Department 2000 Parent/Child Services Grant “Special
People, Special Needs” via the Richmond Memorial Library for the Nioga Library
System.
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Storytime Kits
Rhyme Time
KIT CONTENTS
Theme: Children can sometimes help tell the stories when the words rhyme.
Story Starters
Rhyming pictures
Books
Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet Ahlberg
Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? by Nancy Carlstrom
Jiggle, Wiggle, Prance by Sally Noll
Oh, A-Hunting We Will Go by John Langstaff
Flannelboard Activity
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr.
Puppet Activity
Chicken Book by Garth Williams – glove finger puppets
Specialty Items
The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins – Velcro pictures
Frances Face-Maker by William Cole and Tomi Ungerer – paper plate faces
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“Little Jack Horner”
“Monkeys and the Crocodile”
“Two Little Monkeys”
Songs
“The Grand Old Duke of York”- action
Poems
“Bye, Baby Bunting”
List of additional books
Four (4) Activity Sheets
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“Bye, Baby Bunting”
Storytime Kits
Say It Again
KIT CONTENTS
Theme: Cumulative and repetitive stories, songs and poems.
Story Starters
Farm animals for Old MacDonald
Books
The Cake That Mack Ate by Rose Robart
Cat Goes Fiddle-I-Fee by Paul Galdone
Hairy Maclary From Donaldson’s Dairy by Lynley Dodd
Jump, Frog, Jump! by Robert Kalan
Flannelboard Activity
“The Green Grass Grew All Around” - song
Puppet Activity
“Old MacDonald Had a Farm” – paper-bag puppets to use with song
Specialty Items
The Napping House by Audrey Wood – illustrated story
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“Visiting”
Songs
“Johnnie Works with One Hammer”
“Just Like Brownie”
List of additional books
Four (4) Activity Sheets
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“The Wiggle Song”
Storytime Kits
Spring
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Farmers hat with bird and eggs
Miniature umbrellas
Books
It’s Spring by Else Minarik
Max’s Chocolate Chicken by Rosemary Wells
Mushroom in the Rain by Mirra Ginsburg
Who Took the Farmer’s Hat? by Joan L. Nodset
Flannelboard Activities
My Red Umbrella by Robert Bright
“Raindays”
Puppet Activities
“Eency Weency Spider”
“Kites”
Specialty Items
Hamilton Duck’s Springtime Story by Arthur Getz
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Finger Plays
“The Rain”
“The Wind”
“Sleepy Caterpillars”
“Little Bird”
“Dig a Little Hole”
“Rain”
“Relaxing Flowers”
“Friendly Kites”
Songs
“Farmer Plows the Ground”
“Farmer and His Seeds”
“Eency Weency Spider”
“I Know a Little Pussy”
“Spring Morning”
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Poems
“Rain”
“Galoshes”
“To a Red Kite”
“The Year Moves On”
“Three Signs of Spring”
List of additional books
Patterns for Name Tags
Suggestions for Activities
Additional Presentations
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Storytime Kits
Spring Mini-Kit
Books:
Kite In the Park by Lucy Cousins
Mud by Mary Lyn Ray
Name Tags
Puppet Activity
Butterfly Hand Puppet
Songs
“Spring Morning”
“Eency Weency Spider”
“Windy Day Play”
Flannelboard Activity
“Raindrops”
Specialty Item
Rainy Day Bear
Fingerplays
“The Rain”
“Friendly Kites”
“Beautiful Butterfly”
Crafts
Sunflower
Spring tree
Windsock
Butterfly
Supported by Federal Library Services and Technology Act Title I funds, granted by the
New York State Library…via the Nioga Library System
1998
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Storytime Kits
Summer Fun
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Sunglasses and seashells
Books
A Beach Day by Douglas Florian
Better Not Get Wet, Jesse Bear by Nancy White Carlstrom
Picnic by Emily Arnold McCully
Pig Pig Goes to Camp by David McPhail
Flannelboard Activities
Marmalade’s Picnic by Cindy Wheeler
“Animal Shadows”
Puppet Activity
“Five Little Busy Bees” – glove puppet
Specialty Item
“Kenna’s Yellow Flower” - flipchart
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“Day at the Beach”
“A Little Boy’s Walk”
“Riding the Merry-Go-Round”
“Five Little Children”
“Ocean Shell”
“Five Little Seashells”
“The Little Fish”
“Five Little Hotdogs”
Songs
“Baby Bumblebee”
“At the Beach”
“Bright Sun”
“Merry-Go-Round”
“Rain is Falling All Around”
“To the Beach”
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Poems
“Baggage”
“The Shell”
“In August”
“Caterpillar”
“The Picnic”
“A Picnic”
“Drinking Fountain”
“Lawnmower”
List of additional books
Patterns for Name Tags
Suggestions for Activities
Additional Presentations
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Storytime Kits
Summer Mini-Kit
Books
One Hot Summer Day by Nina Crews
Sunflower House by Eve Bunting
Name Tags
Stick Puppets
Sun and Tree (Use with song “Mr. Sun”)
Songs
“Mr. Sun”
“Bright Sun Shining Down”
“The Sun is Always There”
Flannelboard Activity
“Five Little Seashells”
Specialty Item
Beehive and bees (To use with “Here is the Beehive”)
Fingerplays
“Here is the Beehive”
“A Little Boy’s Walk”
Crafts
Watermelon slice
Fans
“Mr. Sun”
Smiling Sunface
Supported by Federal Library Services and Technology Act Title I funds, granted by the
New York State Library…via the Nioga Library System
1998
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Storytime Kits
Teddy Bears
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Teddy bear hand puppet
Teacher’s personal bear
Books
Corduroy by Don Freeman
First Flight by David McPhail
Golden Bear by Ruth Young
Teddy Bears’ Picnic by J. Kennedy, illustrated by M. Hague
Flannelboard Activities
Moon Bear by Frank Asch
“Where’s My Teddy?”
Puppet Activities
Teddy bear – hand puppet
“Five Teddy Bears” – mitt puppets and five little teddy bears
Specialty Items
Color bears
A Perfect Nose for Ralph by Jane Breskin Zalben
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays and Action Rhymes
“Teddy Bear”
“Going on a Bear Hunt”
“The Bear Went Over the Mountain”
“Here is a Bear”
“Amanda is a Panda Bear”
“Five Bears”
“Here is the cave”
“Marco the Polar Bear”
Songs
“The Teddy Bears’ Picnic”
“Teddy Bears are Dancing”
“Bears are Sleeping”
“Isn’t it Funny?”
“Three Brown Bears”
“Ten Little Teddy Bears”
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“Pierre the Bear”
Poems
“Teddy Bears”
“Hide & Seek”
“My Teddy Bear”(2)
“My Friend”
“My Teddy Bear”
List of additional books
Patterns for Name Tags
Suggestions for Activities
Additional Presentations
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Storytime Kits
Thanksgiving
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Wooden pilgrim couple
Plastic turkey
Display Cutouts
Cornucopia, pilgrim, turkey
Books
1,2,3 Thanksgiving by W. Nikola-Lisa
Alligator Arrived With Apples by Crescent Dragonwagon
Over the River and Thru’ the Woods by Normand Chartier
Thanksgiving Day by Gail Gibbons
Thanksgiving Treat by Catherine Stock
Flannelboard Activities
Our Thanksgiving Dinner by Bernice Carlson
Running Bear’s Thanksgiving by Jean Warren
Puppet Activities
“Five Little Turkeys” – finger puppets
“Thanksgiving” – hand puppets
“Four Fat Turkeys” – mitt puppets
Specialty Item
I Ate Too Much by Jack Prelutsky
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“The Turkey”
“Four Little Turkeys”
“Thanksgiving”
“Gobble, Gobble”
“Mr. Duck”
“Three Turkey Gobblers”
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Songs
Note: An audiocassette of the following songs is also included in kit.
“5 Fat Turkeys are We”
“The Turkey”
“I’m a Little Turkey”
“On Thanksgiving Day”
“Thanksgiving Hurrah”
“Let’s Play Indians”
Poems
“It’s Happy Thanksgiving”
“Thanksgiving Day Gathering”
“Turkeys Move in the Strangest Way”
“The Wishbone”
List of additional books
Patterns for Name Tags
Suggestions for Activities
Additional Presentations
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Storytime Kits
There’s Magic In Books
KIT CONTENTS
Theme: Fantasy, magic and magic tricks are common topics in picture books.
Story Starter
Simple magic trick
Books
Big Anthony and the Magic Ring by Tomie de Paola
Rumplestiltskin by Paul Galdone
The Witch Next Door by Norman Bridwell
The Wizard, the Fairy and the Magic Chicken by Helen Lester
Flannelboard Activity
“The Three Wishes”
Puppet Activity
The Tooth Witch by Nurit Karlin
Specialty Items
Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson – chalkboard story with
pictures
“Jack and the Beanstalk” – string story
“Carrots for Every Bunny” – cut and tell story
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“I Dig the Ground”
“A Funny Old Witch”
List of additional books
Four (4) Activity Sheets
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Storytime Kits
Travel
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Wooden train and toy airplane
Books
Coco Can’t Wait by Taro Gomi
Mr. Gumpy’s Motor Car by John Burningham
Pig Pig Rides by David McPhail
Up in the Air by Myra Cohn Livingston
Flannelboard Activity
“Dragon in a Wagon”
Puppet Activities
“Traveling with Matilda” – stick puppets
“Get a Ticket” – glove puppets
Specialty Item
Four Fur Feet by Margaret Wise Brown – magnet story
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“My Tricycle”
“The Wheels on the Bus”
“I’m a Plane”
“Choo Choo Train”
“Johnny’s Ride”
Songs
“Down by the Station”
“Choo Choo Train”
“She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain”
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“Row, Row, Row Your Boat”
“Hop, Hop, Hop”
Poems
“Jump or Jiggle”
“Trains”
“Truck”
“Traveling”
“Ferry Boats”
List of additional books
Patterns for Name tags
Suggestions for Activities
Additional Presentations
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Storytime Kits
Valentine’s Day
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Valentines, box of candy hearts (sprayed with polyurethane)
Display Cut-Outs
Bee, cat, dragon, raccoon
Books
Louanne Pig In the Mysterious Valentine by Nancy Carlson
Little Mouse’s Big Valentine by Thacher Hurd
One Zillion Valentines by Frank Modell
Valentine Bears by Eve Bunting
Flannelboard Activities
“Special Valentine”
“Valentine” by Solveig Paulson Russell
Puppet Activities
“5 Little Hearts” – finger puppets
“The Queen of Hearts” – stick puppets
Specialty Items
“Mother’s Chocolate Valentine” by Jack Prelutsky – box of valentine candy
“My Special Cake” by Jack Prelutsky – flip chart
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“How Many Valentines?”
“Five Little Valentines”
“Gay Valentines”
“I’ll Send You One Valentine”
Songs
Note: An audiocassette of the following songs is also included in kit.
“Let’s Make Valentines”
“Look Who’s Coming”
“The Postman Brings a Valentine”
“Oh, Won’t You Be My Valentine”
“When You Send a Valentine”
“Valentine”
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Poems
“Valentines”
“The Best Valentine”
“If I Were a Mailman”
“Crumbs on the Snow”
“Valentine for Granny”
List of additional books
Patterns for Name tags
Suggestions for Activities
Additional Presentations
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Storytime Kits
What’s There To Eat?
KIT CONTENTS
Theme: People and animals like different types of food
Story Starter
Artificial popsicles
Books
Jamberry by Bruce Degen
Marmalade’s Picnic by Cindy Wheeler
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Yummers Too: The Second Course by James Marshall
Flannelboard Activity
“The Banana Split”
Puppet Activity
Baker and cupcake for “Patty-cake, Patty-cake”
Specialty Items
“The Red Apple Tree” – cut and tell story
“How Do You Make a Pizza Grow?” – magnet poem
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“My Apple”
“Hot Cross Buns”
“Little Jack Horner”
Songs
“The Disappearing D-O-N-U-T”
List of additional books
Four (4) Activity Sheets
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Storytime Kits
Winter
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Small snowman
Books
Geraldine’s Big Snow by Holly Keller
The Jacket I Wear In the Snow by Shirley Neitzel
The Mitten by Jan Brett
Sadie and the Snowman by Allen Morgan
Flannelboard Activities
“On This Night”
“Making Snowballs”
Puppet Activities
“Chubby Little Snowman”
Christmas Present From A Friend by Yuriko Kimura
Specialty Items
“Snowman” – string poem
“Christmas” – poem on a ribbon
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays
“Chubby Little Snowman”
“Here is the Chimney”
“Christmas Tree”
“My Zipper suit”
“Valentines”
“Winter Weather
“Warm Clothes”
Songs
“Once There was a Snowman”
“John Brown’s Baby”
“Look Who’s Coming”
“Jingle Bells”
“Guess Who”
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Poem
“I Made My Dog a Valentine”
“The More it Snows”
“Tracks in the Snow”
“Lying on Things”
“Furry Bear”
“A Popcorn Song”
“Snowman”
“Christmas”
List of additional books
Pattern For Name Tags
Suggestions For Activities
Additional Presentations
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Storytime Kits
Winter Mini-Kit
Books:
Snow Dance by Lezlie Evans
Snow Day! by Barbara M. Joosse
Name Tags
Puppet Activity
“The Snowman” hand puppet
Bear finger puppet
Songs
“Once There was a Snowman”
“What Shall We Do?”
“Dance Like Snowflakes”
Flannelboard Activity
“Snow People”
Fingerplays
“Winter Weather”
“Warm Clothes”
Crafts
Snowy Tree
Snowman
Mittens
Supported by Federal Library Services and Technology Act Title I funds, granted by the
New York State Library…via the Nioga Library System
1998
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Storytime Kits
You Are Special
KIT CONTENTS
Theme: Each child should accept and appreciate his or her own uniqueness and
individuality
Story Starter
Unbreakable mirror
Books
The Biggest Nose by Kathy Caple
The Chick and the Duckling by Vladimir Grigorevich Suteev
Clive Eats Alligators by Alison Lester
The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle
Flannelboard Activity
Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Puppet Activity
Lamb and felt apron for The Strongest One of All by Mirra Ginsburg
Specialty Items
Here Are My Hands by Bill Martin Jr. – hinged boy
“Wishing” – hidden pictures
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Songs
“I am Special”
“The Wiggle Song”
“Hinges”
“If You’re Happy”
“Each Child is Precious”
“My Hands”
“My Wiggles”
“Me”
“I Can Stand”
Poems
List of additional books
Four (4) Activity Sheets
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Storytime Kits
Your Five Senses
KIT CONTENTS
Story Starters
Baby doll
Magnifying glass
Books
Pie’s In the Oven by Betty Birney
Lucy Picture by Nicola Moon
My Five Senses by Margaret Miller
You Smell and Taste and Feel and See and Hear by Mary Murphy
Flannelboard Activities
Using our senses
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.
“What Can You Do?”
Puppet Activities
Jack and the Beanstalk finger puppets
“Have You Seen?” – stick puppets
Specialty Items
“Feelie” bag
“Magnet matching game
FOLDER CONTENTS
Suggestions for using kits
Flannelboard activities
Puppet activities
Specialty items
Fingerplays and Action Rhymes
“Bubble Gum”
“Use Your Eyes”
“I’m Very, Very Special”
“My Eyes Can See”
“I Play My Horn”
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Songs
“Hard and Soft”
“Popcorn Popping”
“Smells Like Dinner”
“Where Am I”
“Ten Little Fingers”
“My Eyes Can See”
“Are You Listening”
“Instrument Sounds”
“If You’re Happy”
List of additional books
Patterns For Name Tags
Suggestions for Activities
Additional Presentations
Guess the smell.
“Silly Questions” – game
Sign language alphabet
Five Senses Discovery Kit
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By the People:
Helping American History Come Alive!
A Directory of Prepackaged Program Kits on American History
Kits
Loan Policies and Procedures
Story-Based Programs
Bound for America
The Road to Freedom and Unity with Abraham Lincoln
Reading Road Trip USA
Book Discussion Programs
New York State History
Early Settlement
The Erie Canal
The Underground Railroad
World War II
American History Timeline
The American Revolution
The First Factories: The Early Labor Movement
World War I
The Dust Bowl
The “By the People: Helping American History Come Alive!” program kits are
supported by Federal Library Services and Technology Act funds, awarded to the New
York State Library by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, via the Nioga
Library System.
9/03
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American History Kits
Loan Policies and Procedures
Who May Borrow
You must be an adult borrower in the Nioga Library System and a leader of a group or
organization, teacher or member library staff.
Bookings
Orders are filled on a “first come/first serve” basis. Requests cannot be submitted more
than a year in advance.
Loan Period
Program kits will be loaned out for a maximum of two weeks. Book discussion kits will
be loaned out for a maximum of two months. A patron may borrow one kit at a time.
Use and Care
There are multiple books, resources and realia in each kit that must be handled with care
if they are to be used by the next borrower. For this reason, please take extra care with
each kit and do not allow children to play with contents.
Damages
All materials are inspected after each use and are in good condition when loaned. If
damage occurs, do not attempt to med the item. If a book is damaged or lost, the
borrower will be charged the list price plus one dollar. There will be a charge of five
dollars ($5.00) for lost of or damage to any item.
Overdue Charges
Borrowers will be charged three dollars ($3.00) per day for each kit not returned on time.
Other patrons may have reserved the kit and need to have the kit delivered on schedule.
Thank you!
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American History Timeline
“The American Revolution”
An American History Book Discussion Program Kit
Kit Contents
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20 copies of the title, The Hollow Tree by Janet Lunn
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One copy of the title, USKids History: Book of the American Colonies
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One copy of Baron von Steuben’s Revolutionary War Drill Manual (A Facsimile
Reprint of the 1794 Edition)
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One copy of the title, Revolutionary War Word Searches Of America, Ltd.
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Antiqued parchment reproductions of the “Declaration of Independence”, the “US
Constitution” and the Bill of Rights” – with quill pens
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Valley Forge National Historic Park brochure
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One musket ball with information card
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A notebook of resources, handouts and activities
(Developed by Suzanne McAllister, Lee-Whedon Memorial Library, Medina)
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American History Timeline
“First Factories: The Early Labor Movement”
An American History Book Discussion Program Kit
Kit Contents
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20 copies of the title, Lyddie by Katherine Paterson
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One copy of the March 2001 issue of Cobblestone, “The Mill Girls: From Farm to
Factory”
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One copy of a teacher’s guide, “The Lowell Mill Girls”, Tsongas Industrial
History Center
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One copy of the videotape, The Workers Remember: Going to Work, Life in the
Mills, Survival & Conflict- Unions and Bosses, and The Closing of the Mills, a
set of four oral history video programs. Lowell National Historical Park. 33
minutes
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One bobbin
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One finger tapestry loom
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One poster, “A New England Cotton Mill”
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A notebook of resources, handouts and activities
(Developed by Suzanne McAllister, Lee-Whedon Memorial Library, Medina)
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American History Timeline
“World War I”
An American History Book Discussion Program Kit
Kit Contents
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20 copies of the title, When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of
Simone Spencer (Dear America series) by Beth Seidel Levine
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One copy of the title, Teaching with Dear America Books by Jeanette Sanderson
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One copy of the title, The Progressive Era and World War I (Making of America
series) by Tanya Lee Stone
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A notebook of resources, handouts and activities
(Developed by Claire Franek, Community Free Library, Holley)
American History Timeline
“The Dust Bowl”
An American History Book Discussion Program Kit
Kit Contents

20 copies of the title, The Journal of C.J. Jackson: A Dust Bowl Migrant (My
Name is America series) by William Durbin
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One copy of the title, Teaching with Dear America Books by Jeanette Sanderson
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One copy of the title, Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at
Weedpatch Camp by Jerry Stanley
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One copy of the title, Drive from the Land: The Story of the Dust Bowl by Milton
Meltzer
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Audiocassette-Dust Bowl Ballads by Woody Guthrie
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A notebook of resources, handouts and activities
(Developed by Claire Franek, Community Free Library, Holley)
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“Bound for America”
An American History Program Kit
Kit contents
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One copy of the title, Journey to Ellis Island: How My Father Came to America
by Carol Bierman
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One copy of the title, Ellis Island: Doorway to Freedom by Steven Kroll
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One copy of the title, A Very Important Day by Maggie Rugg Herold

One copy of the title, I was Dreaming to Come to America: Memories of the Ellis
Island Oral History Project by Veronica Lawlor
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One copy of the title, Coolies by Yin
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One wooden globe with eight wooden figures
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Measuring tape and twine
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A notebook of resources, handouts and activities
(Developed by Sandy Gillard, Richmond Memorial Library, Batavia)
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New York State History
“Early Settlement”
An American History Book Discussion Program Kit
Kit Contents

20 copies of the title, Journey to Nowhere by Mary Jane Auch
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A notebook of resources, handouts and activities
(Developed by Jan Gilgore, Youngstown Free Library)
New York State History
“The Erie Canal”
An American History Book Discussion Program Kit
Kit Contents

20 copies of the title, The Van Wies of Nine Mile Creek: A Story of the Erie
Canal by Nancy L. Breed
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One copy of the title, The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal by Cheryl Harness

One copy of the title, The Erie Canal by Craig A. Doherty and Katherine M.
Doherty

One CD titled “Oh! That Low Bridge!: Songs of the Erie Canal” by George Ward

One Erie Canal “Matchmaking Card Game”

A notebook of resources, handouts and activities
(Developed by Melane Shuttleworth, Middleport Free Library)
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New York State History
“The Underground Railroad”
An American History Book Discussion Program Kit
Kit Contents

20 copies of the title, Freedom Crossing by Margaret Goff Clark

One copy of the title, Under the Quilt of Night by Deborah Hopkinson

One copy of the title, Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson

One copy of the videotape, Follow the Drinking Gourd. Narrated by Morgan
Freeman. Rabbit Ears Entertainment. 30 minutes.

One poster, “Making the Journey to Freedom: The Underground Railroad”

A notebook of resources, handouts and activities
(Developed by Melane Shuttleworth, Middleport Free Library)
New York State History
“World War II”
An American History Book Discussion Program Kit
Kit Contents

20 copies of the title, Don’t You Know There’s a War On? By Avi

One copy of the title, World War II Days (American Kids in History) by David C.
King
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One copy of the title, Rosie the Riveter by Penny Colman

The 60 Greatest Old-Time Radio Shows of the 20th Century. 30 Audio CDs, 60
programs, 30 hours
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A notebook of resources, handouts, and activities.
(Developed by Jan Gilgore, Youngstown Free Library)
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“Reading Road Trip USA”
An American History Program Kit
Kit Contents

One copy of the title, Capital by Lynn Curlee.
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One copy of the title, The Story of the Statute of Liberty by Betsy Giulio Maestro

One copy of the title, My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States, selected
by Lee Bennett Hopkins

One copy of the title, The Wall by Eve Bunting

One copy of the title, America the Beautiful by Katherine Lee Bates

“Carmen Sandiego USA” Junior Edition board game

Symbols of the USA (Classroom Helpers) activity book

“Symbols of a Great Nation” bulletin board – 11 pieces and guide

“States and Capitals Rap” (Rock N Learn) – CD cassette and book

Presidential Memorial bookmarks (limited quantity) – four sets of 25 per loan

A notebook of resources, handouts and activities
(Developed by Kris DeGlopper, Newfane Free Library)
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“The Road to Freedom and Unity with Abraham Lincoln”
An American History Program Kit
Kit Contents
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One copy of the title, Civil War (A Library of Congress Book) by Martin W.
Sandler
One copy of the title, The Civil War in Depth, Volume II (History in 3-D) by Bob
Zeller – with 3-D VIEWER
One copy of the title, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
One copy of the title, Dear Austin: Letters from the Underground Railroad by
Elvira Woodruff
One copy of the title, Young Abe Lincoln: The Frontier Days, 1809-1837 by
Cheryl Harness
One copy of the title, Abe Lincoln Goes to Washington, 1837 – 1865 by Cheryl
Harness
One copy of the title, Secret Signs: An Escape Through the Underground Railroad
by Anita Riggio
One copy of the title, Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco
One box containing The Civil War Collection: Artifacts and Memorabilia from
the War Between the States, text by Bob Zeller
One copy of the following videotapes:
Abraham Lincoln. Cromwell Productions. 50 minutes.
Dear America: A picture of Freedom: The story of Clotee, A Slave Girl,
Scholastic. 30 minutes
Gettysburg, July 1st – 3rd, 1863: The Final Fury. Lou Reda Productions. 30
minutes.
One copy of the President Abraham Lincoln Activity Book (Animated Hero
Classics)
One copy of the Harriet Tubman Activity Book (Animated Hero Classics)
One board game, “Plantation Life” with one dice
A notebook of resources, handouts and activities
(Developed by Michelle Watt and Wendy Peters, Swan Library)
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FLANNELBOARD AND MAGNET STORIES
Continuing Education Department
Nioga Library System
Revised July 2005
The following selection of stories adapted for the flannelboard or magnet board are
available for loan to member libraries and childcare facilities. Please order through the
Continuing Education Department at the Nioga Library System. The stories can be
borrowed for one week. Member libraries are responsible for replacement of any missing
or damaged items.
ABC MEDLEY SING-ALONG SET – Judy/Instructo
ANIMAL HOMES – Kidstuff
ASK MR. BEAR – Marjorie Flack
B IS FOR BEAR – Dick Bruna
THE BED JUST SO – Jeanne Hardendorff
THE BIG BIG TURNIP – Storytelling with the flannelboard
THE BIG FREIGHT TRAIN – Kidstuff
THE BIG PUDDLE – Kidstuff
BILLY BOY – Kidstuff
BROWN BEAR, BROWN BEAR, WHAT DO YOU SEE? – Lakeshore
BUSY BEACH DAY – Kidstuff
CASTLE TALES – The Story Teller
A CHRISTMAS WISH – Garden Grove Public Schools
CINDERELLA – Judy/Instructo
THE CIRCUS PARADE – Kidstuff
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CLEMENTINE SING-ALONG SET – Judy/Instructo
COULD ANYTHING BE WORSE – Marilyn Hirsh
DINOSAUR TIME – Peggy Parish
DINOSAURS – The Story Teller (With Backdrop)
DOWN BY THE BAY SING-ALONG SET – Judy/Instructo
DRAGON FRIENDS – Kidstuff
EENSIE-WEENSIE SPIDER – Judy/Instructo
THE ELEPHANT’S CHILD – Adapted from Rudyard Kipling
THE FISH WITH THE DEEP SEA SMILE – Margaret Wise Brown
FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS – Judy/Instructo
THE FROG KING – Kidstuff
FROG WENT A COURTIN’ – Story Program Activities For Older Children – Carolyn
Peterson & Christina Sterchele
THE GINGERBREAD BOY – Judy/Instructo
GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS – Judy/Instructo
HALLOWEEN SUBTRACTION – Mary Alice Kelly
HANSEL AND GRETEL – Judy/Instructo
HAVE YOU SEEN THE CROCODILE? – Colin West
THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT – Mother Goose
A HUNTING WE WILL GO – Story Program Activities For Older Children – Carolyn
Peterson & Christina Sterchele
I AM A FINE MUSICIAN – Kidstuff
I KNOW AN OLD LADY – Judy/Instructo
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JACK AND THE BEANSTALK – Judy/Instructo
THE JACKET I WEAR IN THE SNOW – Lakeshore
JENNIE JENKINS – Story Program Activities For Older Children – Carolyn Peterson &
Christina Sterchele and Kidstuff (magnet story)
THEN JINGLE BELLS – Minnie Hill
A KISS FOR LITTLE BEAR – Else Minarik
THE LADY’S ROOM – Virginia Tashjian (flip story)
THE LITTLE FISHES – Julie Shelton
LITTLE MOUSE, LITTLE MOUSE – Felt Board Finger plays by Liz and Dick Wilmes
THE LITTLE RABBIT WHO WANTED RED WINGS – Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
THE LITTLE RED HEN – Judy/Instructo
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD – Judy/Instructo
LITTLE RED SHOES – Adapted from Storytelling with The Flannelboard by Paul
Anderson
MAY I BRING A FRIEND – Beatrice Schenk De Regniers
MR. SEAGULL – Kidstuff
MOOTHER GOOSE RHYMES (Sets I, II, III) – Judy/Instructo
MOTHER, MOTHER, I WANT ANOTHER – Maria Palushkin (Kidstuff)
THE NAPPING HOUSE – Lakeshore
NO MORE ROOM – Francois Crozat
NURSERY RHYMES SET ONE – The Story Teller
NURSERY RHYMES SET TWO – The Story Teller
OLD MACDONALD HAD A FARM – Judy/Instructo
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ONE DARK NIGHT – Edna Mitchell Preston
THE ROOSTER WHO SET OUT TO SEE THE WORLD – Eric Carle
RUMPLESTILTSKIN – Judy/Instructo
THE RUNAWAY TOYS – Kidstuff
SAM’S SANDWHICH – Linda Milliken
SCAT THE CAT – Jackie Marquardt, Olympia Timberland Library
SCHOOL CLASSROOM, PLAYGROUND – The Story Teller
THE SMITH’S CHRISTMAS – Minnie Hill
SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOUSE: A BOOK ABOUT FEELINGS – Jeanne
Modesitt
THE STORY OF THANKSGIVING – San Diego City Schools (2 copies)
TEN CATS AND THEIR TALES – Martin Leman
TEN CIRCUS WAGONS – Rhymes for Fingers and Flannelboards by L.B. Scott and J.J.
Thompson
TEN LITTLE PARROTS – Harry Stevens
A THANKSGIVING STORY – Storytelling with Flannelboard – Idalee Vonk
THERE WAS AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A … - Lakeshore (Cloth Book
with Velcro Characters)
THE THREE BILLY GOATS GRUFF – Idalee Vonk
THREE BILLY GOATS GRUFF – Judy/ Instructo
THREE DUCKS WENT WANDERING – Rob Roy – Kidstuff
THE THREE LITTLE PIGS – Judy/Instructo
THE THREE PIGS – Paul Galdone
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THE THREE SILLIES – Judy/Instructo
THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR – Eric Carle
WHO OWNS THE MOON? – Sonia Levitin
WHOSE MOUSE ARE YOU? – Robert Kraus
WHY THE EVERGREEN TREES NEVER LOSE THEIR LEAVES
WIZARD CRYSTAL – Manus Pinkwater
SPECIALTY ITEMS
ARTHUR AND FRIENDS – Arthur, D.W., Francine, Pal – (stuffed figures)
BOOKWORM PUPPET – Folkmanis
CATERPILLAR TO BUTTERFLY – (metamorphosis puppet)
CRAB HAT
CRICTOR – by Tomi Ungerer (set of props)
COMMUNITY HELPER BEARS – firefighter, postal worker, policeman (stuffed
animals with corresponding books from the Child’s World series on community helpers)
DINOSAUR ROAR! – Paul & Henrietta Strickland
(Board book and finger puppet)
DRAGON PUPPET – (from Folkmanis)
FIRE HOUSE – Sesame Street 15 piece play set
FISH – (puppet)
FLOWER FAIRY PUPPET – (from Folkmanis)
FUZZY YELLOW DUCKLINGS – Matthew Van Fleet
(board book and stuffed duckling)
LILLY’S PURPLE PLASTIC PURSE – Kevin Henkes
THE LORAX – Dr. Seuss
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(book and doll, book and puppet)
MYSTERIOUS TADPOLE – Steven Kellog
OCTOPUS – (Puppet)
SANTA CLAUS, MRS. CLAUS, RUDOLPH, SNOWMAN, ELF – (Christmas puppets)
SHARK – (Puppet)
SNAIL – (Puppet)
SNOW FAIRY PUPPET – (from Folkmanis)
SUGAR PLUM FAIRY PUPPET – (from Folkmanis)
TADPOLE TO FROG – (metamorphosis puppet)
TEDDY BEAR TEDDY BEAR – Michael Hague
(board book and stuffed teddy bear)
WITCH – (Puppet)
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